Archiv der Kategorie: Conferences and Workshops
Maritime Asia 海洋亚洲 International Workshop
Kurzmitteilung
This international workshop will bring together specialists working on various aspects of China’s maritime history, focusing on its historical relations to neighboring or distant countries and oceanic spaces. We will concentrate on two thematical chapters, (1) geographical knowledge, sea routes & navigation as the major precondition of seafaring, (2) on coastal defence and piracy as major consequences of seafaring activities, and otherwise divide the papers according to oceanic spaces, that is, China’s relations with (i) East and Southeast Asian countries, (ii) with the larger Indian Ocean World, and (iii) with the Asia-Pacific macro-region. The workshop seeks to enlarge our knowledge on China’s rich history of maritime relations.
“Maritime disasters and shipwrecks of Manila galleons“
Kurzmitteilung
“Maritime disasters and shipwrecks of Manila galleons in the East and Southeast Asian waters”, MARITIME KNOWLEDGE FOR ASIAN SEAS. An interdisciplinary dialogue between maritime historians and archaeologists, Paris, EFEO, EHESS, 21.-23.11.18 (21.11.18)
Lecture “China and the Viceroyalty of Peru in Early Modern Times”
Kurzmitteilung
“China and the Maritime Silk Routes: The Role of China’s Contacts with the Asia-Pacific and the Viceroyalty of Peru in Early Modern Times”, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (26.11.18)
Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: International Conference, July 4-5
Kurzmitteilung
Beyond the Silk Road: Asian Maritime History and Culture
Kurzmitteilung
International conference
“Beyond the Silk Road: Asian Maritime History and Culture” 海上絲路的延伸：亞洲海洋歷史及文化
China National Maritime Museum in Shanghai from 19-22 August 2015
A Comparative Study of Past and Present Fermentation and Associated Distillation Technologies in Eurasia and Their Roots
Kurzmitteilung
International Workshop
“Recovery of Traditional Technologies I: A Comparative Study of Past and Present Fermentation and Associated Distillation Technologies in Eurasia and Their Roots
University of Salzburg, History Department, May 11, 12 and 13, 2015
Bronze Coins and Silver Ingots
Kurzmitteilung
Winter 2015 IOWC Speaker Series
Angela Schottenhammer
Professor of Non-European and World History, University of Salzburg
Bronze Coins and Silver Ingots: The Major Currencies across the East Asian Mediterranean
Thursday, 23 April 2015, 4:00 pm
Peterson Hall Rm 116 | 3460 McTavish Street | McGill University
Like many regions in the middle period and early modern times, East Asia was also characterized by a multi-currency system. Highly developed market regions that already used paper money and silver in international exchanges co-existed with many lower developed regions that maintained barter or commodity currencies. My talk will provide an overview of the role of bronze coins, the standard currency of China over centuries, and silver ingots as currencies in the Asian waters from the middle period to early modern times. It will be argued that the great exporter of “international” currencies, China, was eventually prompted to adopt a system of paper currency due to a scarcity of money metals that resulted from its integration into the Asian maritime world and beyond. In the sixteenth century, however, this supra-regional, global integration made China the worldwide largest silver sink. Japan emerged as her most important source of silver and, later, copper, although much silver also came from the new world.
This is the second keynote speech of the IOWC Conference ‘Currencies of Commerce in the Greater Indian Ocean World’
Wissenschaft und globales Denken
Kurzmitteilung
Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries
Kurzmitteilung
Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries
Knowledge Transfer, Product Exchange and Human Movement in the Indian Ocean World
International conference organized by the Department of Languages and Cultures of South and East Asia, Sinology
Ghent University, Belgium.
June 21-23, 2012